Free-form tarts are my favorite way to showcase ripe fruit—they’re delicious, easy
and beautiful without being precious. Here, corn flour and rhubarb are paired for both
their assertive flavor and their stunning color. You can also press the dough into a fluted tart
shell for a larger, more formal dessert. Or, just make the dough (without the compote)
and roll into simple cookies.

Antonia Juhasz on her new book BLACK TIDE: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.

Host Per Fagereng interviews Antonia Juhasz about her new book BLACK TIDE: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill

It is the largest oil disaster in American history, and it could happen again. It is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, chemical dispersants, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama filled with people whose lives will forever be defined as “before” and “after” the Gulf oil disaster.

Vandana Shiva - War on the Earth (interview)

The predatory practices of corporations are increasingly turning our fragile garden into a junkyard. Citizens are told by their political masters and the corporados who pay them that there is no alternative. That’s true if one’s only concern is profits. That approach is fast turning our planet into a toxic waste dump. The landscape of environmental devastation extends from radiation leaks in Japan to drilling in the Alberta tar sands to hydofracking in Pennsylvania and New York to leveling mountains in West Virginia to more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. However in India, the site of some of the worst corporate abuses, there is tremendous popular resistance.

Portland transplant and pastry chef Kim Boyce drops by to chat about Good to the Grain, her new ode to baking with whole-grain flours.

Then we bring you a special treat: the return of the Roquefort Files, KBOO’s homage du fromage. Join Justin Miller and Stuart Margolis, KBOO’s cheese wizs in residence, as they review a spectacular cheese from Switzerland that’s not your mama’s swiss.

Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert welcome Matthew Shepherd, Senior Conservation Associate with The Xerces Society (a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertabrates and their habitat) to talk about their brand new book Attracting Native Pollinators. Plus the Plant-of-the-month: figs! And as always, a new Garden Stumper quiz, and answers to your questions.